In doing some co-marketing planning with the local IBM team there is clearly a lot of energy behind the push to move Oracle users to DB2. With V9.7 the claim is that 95% of all Oracle application code will run – untouched – in DB2 V9.7. So the IBM teams (and me) are looking at customers using both DB2 and Oracle as targets to move to 100% DB2 in 2010.
I am accumulating information on the migration process and trying to figure out how to accomplish it quickly – and therefore as inexpensively as possible. I want the ROI to show a return fast! There is a tool to estimate the migration effort which can then be used to estimate the cost. It’s 2010 – it’s so much easier than these things used to be…in fact, in looking at older migration plans, Frank dug up a white paper comparing Oracle and DB2 V6.1 that includes migration information. It’s 148 pages long…take a look (at the link below) if you have absolutely nothing else to do.
Of course, in the world of new reseller programs, ValueNet and Software Advantage Plus, and so on, I must mention The Fillmore Group has a competitive migration VAP in place to enable us to sell DB2 to Oracle users for the best prices anywhere. Call me if you want to make the change. Go DB2!
